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Nah, you're not stupid, you're just having to learn how to think along very rigid lines, using language you're not familiar with. Keep it up, it turns out that all effort is rewarding. "If you are not confused, you have mis-understood the question."

You probably should. The bugs can smell it, and they hate it.

Ye..es, and, well other stuff. The effects of stress and confusion can quite often be taken for stupidity and it is for this reason that militaries train their soldiers. However, no training is perfect, not all reactions to physical and mental stimuli can be predicted. Welcome to the uncertain world.

Here, I found this one for you: With a heart of furious fancies Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and horse of air, To the wilderness I wander. With a knight of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney, Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end - Methinks it is no journey.

meh. Inordinate amounts of meh. Righto Boo, you just put your collection of smelly underwear away and indulge yourself in a true, manly hobby for a change. I challenge you to a contest of facility of wit, one where your nose's ability to differentiate between the naturally fecund and a hormone enhanced shemale is only good for determining exactly which class of ordure I shall beat out of you. 'cause you're you're not going to be able to tell by colour, see?, having being blinded by the radiance coming from your own fundament as your head is shoved therein, it first having been removed from it's rightful place in Joe's. Come get some, you four legged, gotch eyed, leprosy infested excuse for a k-nigget!

I'm sure this is an exaggeration - I've rubbled buildings with the M2 in CMSF (or at least knocked out walls). Sure, ricochets are modeled...

Scipio, I've noticed the same thing but I found that I can cancel the dismount or bail out order by selecting the unit and pressing "Backspace". If you've tacked a string of movement orders onto the "Dismount" order, backspace will take you back along them one by one.

Lend me your earhole for a moment and I'll demonstrate with vigour. Joe there's no level of incompetence I can't reach. What news of the fishermen - did they drown (happy thought), or were they arrested by the Coast Guard for "lewd display designed to terrorize local inhabitants." Maybe we should get up a petition to have them extradited to Mexico for their jail terms. Cesspudlians, I still have not challenged any one of you successfully. Now, while I know that none of us is particularly fond of receiving a beating (oops, forgot about Boo, sorry Boo) I feel it behooves one or other of you to receive the inaugural thrashing. Well?

To get to the other side. Do, or do not: there is no try.

Sure, why not? 'cept for Mace - he's incorrigible, or so he says.

No no no, you have it wrong - again. (How very proletarian of you, Michael.) In Australia we vote for members of the criminal class, who then pass all sorts of laws to further their nefarious purposes. (Actually, it reminds of another nation, on the tip of my tongue.. oh yes, what a coincidence. Your bankers would know where I'm talking about.)

They're cruising: plenty of people willing to be probed out where Stuka lurks.

Being little more than a controlled reflex yourself, Michael, you're hardly in a position to judge. Stuka, where's the 'roo bar?

Fair point. What I didn't say was that I don't expect CM:SF will ever get the QB system we want; but that I expect the next generation of CMX2 games will. I hope.

So, "The Great Wonder".

Good thread topic. I sort of like the "You get what you get give: work with it." That said, I also like to compose my own force, making up the most functional fire-brigade company or assault group from limited set of resources. Force selection managed by the player avoids the problems of "The computer gave me a crap force to work with." and "Man, I've played this particular set of units so many times already - time to give IL2 another go." A player managed force selection also gives the greater likelihood of tactical surprise being exercised as certain options are chosen in preference to others - a commander playing to his own strengths and, if he knows his opposition well enough, his opponent's weaknesses. This is where I'm hoping there is an option to view the battle map as part of the force selection process - I believe this would be a valuable piece of data for any commander given his 'druthers. Most of the complaints about the QB system in CM:SF seem to be about an undeveloped system in place. My understanding is that had Battlefront waited until this was "perfect", they wouldn't have been able to release the game for another two years or so, making the exercise uneconomical and therefore moot. We've been told to watch out for an improved system in CM: Atlantic Wall, if we live long enough, we might see what goodies they have had planned for us all along.

Nice one DAF.

Mace, I'm sure the fella at customs told me confiscated goods went to.. oh, disposal. What a country - the cops rob you on your way in.

Between the lines - the Iraqi army wouldn't be able to cope with an invasion from, say, Iran (certainly Saddam viewed the threat from Iran as real - its the reason he gave for not letting the IAEA view his dismantled nuclear weapons research facilities). It's possible that if the US Army wasn't actually present at the time such an event went down, a more reliable relationship between the US Army and the Iraqi could be forged, but unless such circumstances dictated, nothing will improve. It doesn't make sense to withdraw piecemeal as you give the opposition the information they need to hurt you on the way out in terms of men, materiel and morale. My take.

Then I'll just recommend it. Definitely a sipping rum- and you can't get it in Oz no more.

ROFL - brillliant.

One of the last briefing lines for the Marine Campaign is "Take care of your troops and they'll take care of you." It really does apply - you need to conserve lives and ammunition to have a hope, and the fewer casualties you take the more options you have later on.

Atago, the TOW Hummers are awesome anti-armour in built up maps - nimble and light, perfect for navigating tight alleyways.

May I suggest Lemon Hart, 151 proof?

Good pick, oh Gnome. Old enough to have a genuine appreciation for the beauty of youth, young enough to believe that the appreciation could be honestly reciprocal. Old enough to know that fast cars require more engine rebuilds than I have time for. Young enough to prate about the fixability of the world, if only it weren't populated by such a bunch of unspeakable, inedible morons, old enough to suspect that it ain't broke, that the problem lies with myself and my lack of ability. Old enough to see that time is a curve - heh, perhaps some sort of e^x - young enough to have no real idea of how fast that left remaining to me will disappear. Like you would care, but I married for cooking ability. At best, I'm a fool of a fraud, at worst, sincere in my voiced observations, but unwilling to take responsibility for them. But enough about me - Elvis has it right, and that charming threesome of piscine delights is only further proof. Onanists to a man.